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Babel (Paperback)
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Babel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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We are living in an open sea, caught up in a continuous wave, with
no fixed point and no instrument to measure distance and the
direction of travel. Nothing appears to be in its place any more,
and a great deal appears to have no place at all. The principles
that have given substance to the democratic ethos, the system of
rules that has guided the relationships of authority and the ways
in which they are legitimized, the shared values and their
hierarchy, our behaviour and our life styles, must be radically
revised because they no longer seem suited to our experience and
understanding of a world in flux, a world that has become both
increasingly interconnected and prone to severe and persistent
crises. We are living in the interregnum between what is no longer
and what is not yet. None of the political movements that helped
undermine the old world are ready to inherit it, and there is no
new ideology, no consistent vision, promising to give shape to new
institutions for the new world. It is like the Babylon referred to
by Borges, the country of randomness and uncertainty in which no
decision is final; all branch into others . Out of the world that
had promised us modernity, what Jean Paul Sartre had summarized
with sublime formula le choix que je suis ( the choice that I am ),
we inhabit that flattened, mobile and dematerialized space, where
as never before the principle of the heterogenesis of purposes is
sovereign. This is Babel.
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